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Bún nem nướng (Vermicelli Salad Bowl with Vietnamese BBQ Pork Meatballs), my first bowl of Vietnamese food in Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area   Nearly 90 percent of rice vermicelli noodles in Taiwan are not primarily composed of their main ingredient, rice, but are instead a mix of other edible starches

沐浴在泰國佛教光輝下的泥土 1/4 最美麗的衛星城市 席撒查那來 Si Satchanalai Most Beautiful Satellite City 泰國 席撒查那來 Si Satchanalai, Thailand Interviewed accounts orally: Don Schumann Co-Editor: Arlene Kao (My apologies to all English speakers for posting original published article in Traditional Chinese. Please make good use of your internet translator!)

沐浴在泰國佛教光輝下的泥土 2/4 幸福的黎明 素可泰 Sukhothai The Dawn of Merriment 泰國 素可泰 Sukhothai, Thailand Interviewed accounts orally: Don Schumann Co-Editor: Eagle Yang (My apologies to all English speakers for posting original published article in Traditional Chinese. Please make good use of your internet translator!)

沐浴在泰國佛教光輝下的泥土 3/4 水上的都城 大城 Ayuthaya Floating Capital City 泰國 大城 Ayuthaya, Thailand by Don Schumann (My apologies to all English speakers for posting original published article in Traditional Chinese. Please make good use of your internet translator!)

沐浴在泰國佛教光輝下的泥土 4/4 紅土築起的鍚蘭風古都 甘潘霈 Kamphaeng Phet Ceylon-Style Ancient City Built by Red Earth 泰國 甘潘霈 Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand by Don Schumann (My apologies to all English speakers for posting original published article in Traditional Chinese. Please make good use of your internet translator!)

Call Me Apple, Mac or Siri, baby!

French influenced hill retreat town, in Northern Vietnam, of Sapa in Lao Cai Province, with its minority groups, beautiful villas and cherry forests

Colorful treaties from an exclusive tropical island resort  Juice and soda push wine drinking to record low, In France

Typical unified invoices in Taiwan on a cell phone picture by Don Schumann While Taiwan tries to recruit California students to its universities in the USA. On the home front, the allegations of fraudulent invoices submitted by researchers have seen the National Science Council come under fire for failing to enforce procedures

(Slide image queued up for digital scan) The iconic Hollywood sign overlooking Tinseltown is getting its biggest renovation for 35 years, ahead of its 90th birthday next year

Volcán de Agua in Guatemala A mind once stretched by a new idea will never regain its original dimension

Models: Amanda, Kelly, Sharon, Phoebe, Maggie, Allen, Ivy, Brian, Akane Souma, Mei Mei, Claire, Arlene All photos by Don Schumann Global fashion brands selling poisonous and harmful materials under investigation

Elephants in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand In the misty lush hills of northern Thailand, where Thailand meets Laos and Burma, a herd of elephants is excreting some of the world's most expensive coffee

Self-portrait taken on cell phone, on 7/9/2011 My tenure with the days in Tamsui is phasing out 4/8/2012

For years, this is the best value lunchbox, or dinner-box, I can get in Taiwan local. Its price jumped from NT$45 (US$1.5) to NT$65 (US$2.24) while a part-timer gets paid NT$103 (US$3.55) per hour if you can get one, but we are not going deep on that here today Cell phone picture by Don Schumann  Each student asked to pay NT$45 (US$1.5) each day for school lunches while getting only merely NT$23 (US$0.67) worth's meal

Cheese is always my fave, photo taken at a hotel Cafe in Davao, Mindanao If you've been hoarding gross cheese cakes, you might want to consider dumping it, ASAP!

A church in central Germany  A recent decree by Germany's Catholic bishops states that people who opt out of a church tax should not be given sacraments, including weddings, baptisms and funerals

Makati skyline The hotel, which will be Fairmont Hotels & Resorts' first property in Southeast Asia, is in Manila's upscale business district

North of England Bad weather expected to head north as David Cameron promises help to communities in south-west and Midlands

With beautiful, snow-draped scenery End of 1990's flashback: Happy Thanksgiving, guys! By the bye, during the present time, people go shopping their Black Friday gifts on the "Black Thursday". Were not we calling it Thanksgiving before?     Back in Los Angeles from excursion Far East. I was simply happy to be back but had an amazing wintertime out of town

Palisades Park, California, USA Christmas Nativity scenes had been erected in Palisades Park for decades   

Đà Nẵng (Danang City), Vietnam, overlooks the East Sea Three-star Michelin chef Michel Roux launches his first restaurant in Asia at the new Intercontinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort, which opened this summer in Danang City

Taking off at a Philippine domestic airport Taiwan has been the export powerhouse of fraudsters to the Mainland China and Southeast Asia, namely Malaysia, Thailand...

A rustic barbeque chicken on a remote island off Caohagan Island Australia's first outbreak of a highly pathogenic bird flu virus in 15 years should be contained by a cull of 50,000 chickens

Located 20 minutes north of Muscat, the capital of Sultanate of Oman The Chedi Muscat

JR (Japan Rail) Pass JR West Obama Line: including Obama Station ( 小浜駅) , Higashi-Obama Station ( 東小浜駅) , Kato Station ( 加斗駅) , Seihama Station ( 勢浜駅) , and Shin-Hirano Station ( 新平野駅 ) Back when Barack Obama was sworn in for his first term, a small Japanese town was overjoyed. Women danced the hula at the local temple, and...

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its inaugural US flight, from Huston to Chicago   

I got this mug from a French chain store back in late 1980's. Long after I found out it was made in Japan, surprise surprise, and it is from Hallmark, too!? To the side, the steaming cup is from SeaWorld Gold Coast, Australia, with my name on. Also an acquisition dated back to early 1990's by the way   How much do you drink per year?